Theotokosとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Theotocos

語源

Borrowed from Koine Greek Θεοτόκος (Theotókos, “the God-bearer”), from Ancient Greek Θεός (Theós, “God”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”). First attested in 3rd–4th century. Cf. Christotokos.

発音

• Traditional: IPA: /θiːˈɒtəˌkɒs/
• Hellenizing: IPA: /ˌθeɪoʊˈtoʊkoʊs/

固有名詞

(the) Theotokos

1. (Christianity, chiefly Orthodoxy) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God.

   Synonyms: Deipara, Mother of God

   • 1866, John Henry Newman, D.D., A Letter to the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D. on His Recent Eirenicon, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, page 66:

     It is then an integral portion of the Faith fixed by Ecumenical Council, a portion of it which you hold as well as I, that the Blessed Virgin is Theotocos, Deipara, or Mother of God; and this word, when thus used, carries with it no admixture of rhetoric, no taint of extravagant affection,—it has nothing else but a well-weighed, grave, dogmatic sense […]

派生語

参考

• Godbearing

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